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Node.js script to make a zip archive

While working in a node.js project, I had an use case where user will have to query based on days and query result will be pdf filtered by the date range. And I have to create a directory of pdf files and return it as a zip file for the user.

As there are many modules related to zip, I tried couple of the active modules but none was meeting my requirements. And some of those modules has different bugs/issues which were open at that time. After different try/error and going through most of the zip modules, I used archiver. And below a sample how it worked.

After cloning the gist make sure you have files to zip and run the script like below: